Zhao Fengji and Wang Huai stayed in Erguhe, and Fu Xingzhong followed the emperor north.

Standing on the wide and long embankment, with the water level of the Yellow River gradually declining in front of him, Fu Xingzhong pointed to the opposite bank and said: "That is Changlu Town (the urban area of Cangzhou in later generations)." ”

"During the Sui and Tang dynasties, a state was established, but it was downgraded to a county many times."

"At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, it was Changlu County, but because of its sparse population, it was reduced to Changlu Town. Later, it developed and was re-established as Changlu County. ”

"In the second year of Xining, the Yellow River burst its banks, and the entire Changlu County was submerged. In the fourth year of Xining, Changlu County was once again reduced to Changlu Town. ”

"In the former Song Dynasty, the population of Changlu Town increased again. At that time, it was planned to restore the county governance, but the Yellow River burst its embankment, and Changlu Town was flooded again. ”

"Even farther away in Cangzhou City, the walls were flooded to only six feet."

Zhu Ming sighed secretly in his heart.

Zhu Ming naturally knew about the big flood during the Zhenghe period, when he was working as a taishou in Puzhou.

In order to keep Kaifeng and the Jinghua region of Shandong, the imperial court chose to sacrifice the Hebei side. The walls of Cangzhou are so high, only six feet of the city head have not been submerged, and it is said that millions of people died in the entire Yellow Flood Area.

That great flood had a great impact on the subsequent Lianjin War.

The entire East Hebei Road was severely affected, and the rebels and thieves were rampant for many years, and the local people's livelihood was never restored, and it was difficult to provide soldiers, people's husbands, food and grass during the war. Even serious disruptions to Shandong, such as Song Jiang and other giants, were able to grow by relying on the famine that lasted for several years after the disaster.

Fu Xingzhong said: "Before the water of the Ergu River is attacked by the sand, the yellow can be diverted and the silt can be drained on the north side, which is Wang Anshi's method back then. There is sediment from the Yellow River for silt irrigation, which can quickly treat a large area of saline-alkali land in Cangzhou. When the Ergu River begins to bind the water and attack the sand, there will basically be no more floods here, and the five state capitals within a radius can become fertile fields. ”

"Large-scale diversion of yellow and siltation requires a lot of manpower, right?" Zhu Ming asked.

Fu Xingzhong said: "One hundred and twenty thousand. ”

Zhu Ming was silent when he heard this.

Cangzhou and Hejian are already vast and sparsely populated, if another 200,000 people are levied to govern the river, will agricultural production still be guaranteed?

Fu Xingzhong said: "Widening Ergu Hebei Road requires the relocation of a large number of people. First, it is difficult to leave the homeland, and secondly, these people are reluctant to move north. ”

"Then I can only be a tyrant again," Zhu Ming shook his head and sighed, "Maybe ten years later, they will understand." ”

Fu Xingzhong said: "Not only can I understand, but I will also be grateful to Your Majesty." ”

Cangzhou and the river need to be drained and silted, but there is a lack of enough people.

The two rivers flow through the area and need to migrate people, but they are reluctant to come to Cangzhou and the river.

At this time, it was necessary for the imperial court to forcibly relocate.

Moreover, it is necessary to transfer the army and immediately carry out brutal suppression if someone makes trouble.

Zhu Ming said: "You can start small-scale with Huang and release silt, and when I quickly destroy the Jin Kingdom, I will be able to raise money and grain to govern this side." ”

Fu Xingzhong said: "The minister is not urging His Majesty to cut gold, as far as the current situation of the Yellow River is concerned, the sooner these things are handled, the better." If it is delayed for more than five years, the Yellow River may burst at any time. When the time comes, he can only repeat the old tricks, just like in the seventh year of Zhenghe, and flood the entire Cangzhou, half of the river, half of the Daimyo, and some surrounding prefectures and counties, so as to protect Kaifeng and Shandong. ”

In that case, hundreds of thousands of people died and millions were displaced.

We have to speed up the pace of destroying gold and free up money and food to control the river!

……

Continue north, inspect along the way, and soon arrive at the Juma River.

On both sides of the Juma River, there are endless rice fields. From time to time, he also encountered Tangbo, and the lotus leaves were infinitely green, which made Zhu Ming feel that he had returned to Jiangnan.

"It's a great place!" Zhu Ming nodded in approval.

Fu Xingzhong said: "This is the result of several years of governance. In order to resist the Liao State, the former Song Dynasty deliberately made the Juma River deep and unfeasible for boats and shallow. Therefore, the dredging is carried out every year, and the river is not deep, and the river is full of hidden piles. ”

"But at the end of the Song Dynasty, due to the truce with the Liao State for many years, the Hebei border defense gradually fell into disuse."

"For thirty or forty years in a row, the annual repair of the Great Wall of Hebei Water has been perfunctory. There are also officials and heroes who risk the death penalty to enclose the lake and make land. As a result, the area of the lake is shrinking, and the river is seriously silted, and when it is flooded, it floods both banks. ”

"After the Jin State occupied this place, it also didn't care about anything, and the rivers and lakes were even more seriously silted. There are also hundreds of people, who are unbearable to be exploited by the Jin State and flee south. ”

"When I regained this place in the Ming Dynasty, it was a quagmire that stretched for thousands of miles, large and small lakes were scattered indiscriminately, and the population of the people had long been gone."

"Immediately after the people were relocated, hundreds of canals connecting the lakes were dredged. Moreover, this is all the former Song Dynasty Tuntian, and any private land is illegally stolen, and the Ming Dynasty will not recognize it. These thousands of miles of fertile land were all distributed to the returning people, and no big clan could annex them. The people are full of energy, and there is a bumper harvest in the first year of relocation! ”

Not only was this the case on the south bank of the Juma River, but after the Jin State ceded the land and sued for peace, the imperial court also resettled and exiled many people to the north bank. Today, the north bank of the Juma River is also a piece of rice. ”

"Since last year, we have been uprooting the hidden piles in the rivers and lakes. Next year, the Juma River will be dredged so that the Juma River can also be navigated. ”

Zhu Ming asked: "The imperial court has not allocated funds, how did you recruit people?" ”

Fu Xingzhong said: "After the first year of harvest, everyone is happy. The following year, the rivers and lakes were controlled, which can be described as a hundred responses. Ordinary people bring their own tools to dredge and dredge in their villages and towns. Men dig and carry, women cook and deliver food, and they don't want a penny from the government. And there are no complaints, everyone is smiling. Only river workers who go a little farther away will be taken care of by the government, and they will not be paid. ”

"If the people are happy, then everything can be done." Zhu Ming was very happy.

Fu Xingzhong said: "Because no matter how hard and tired they are, they are also doing things for themselves." ”

The area around the Great Wall of Water, which stretches for thousands of miles, as long as the officials do not mess around and guide in an orderly manner, it will be very easy to govern after the opening of the Ming Dynasty.

How many acres of land do you have?

Sorry, the government doesn't recognize it.

Because this place is full of military tuns of the Northern Song Dynasty, your family's land must have been illegally annexed. The change of dynasty didn't cut off your head, so you can have fun by yourself.

All the acres of land were distributed to the common people, and there was not the slightest sign of annexation.

At most, some local officials let their own families or relatives occupy a few more acres when dividing the fields. Harmless.

Everyone has a field, and it's relatively average.

It is the water conservancy of the village and the town that is governed, and the benefits are all their own, how can the people not be motivated?

The government only needs to issue corresponding instructions to each village according to the requirements of the river governor. There are people who are highly respected in the village, and they take the whole village to work in the spare time. Even the elderly, weak, women and children also help in addition to delivering meals.

Zhu Ming looked at the rice field in front of him and suddenly asked, "It's getting colder and colder these years, can rice still be grown in the north?" ”

Fu Xingzhong explained: "These are early-maturing rice. Because of the climate, the sowing time is later than in the south, so it can be harvested before the weather turns cold. ”

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the Liao State often invaded.

As a result, the Northern Song Dynasty developed the Great Wall system, connecting hundreds of lakes and nearly 100 natural rivers of all sizes. Hundreds of artificial canals have been dug for this purpose.

One can effectively resist the invasion of Liao, and the other can obtain military rations in the local tuntian.

The effect is very obvious, and countless saline-alkali lands in Hebei have been transformed into paddy fields. And the Liao army really can't get over, so they can only go south on the Hebei West Road - the Jin soldiers can't come either, and they must also go around from Zhending.

In the first year, Tuntian failed because of the problem of rice seeds.

The following year, the early maturing rice was changed, and a bumper harvest was immediately reaped.

This huge system of the Great Wall of Water has to be maintained every year. If it is not maintained for several years, there must be a large number of canals that are silted. Paddy fields are also divided into four directions, and when to irrigate and when to drain water, must be managed in a unified manner.

At its peak, it became the "North Jiangnan".

The emperor of Liao even wrote a letter to the Song State in person, hoping that the people on the north bank of the Juma River could also go down to the river to fish and harvest reeds, and the Song army would not interfere at will.

Moreover, the Liao State also learned from the Song State Tuntian and produced a large number of rice fields on the north bank.

However, the Liao State lacked management and often "exhausted its resources to catch fish". When water is diverted to irrigate the fields, some sections of the river are directly drained without regard for the consequences.

……

The Great Wall of Water in the Northern Song Dynasty did not have problems until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The main reason is the lack of management, and the rules that were formulated in the early days are no longer taken seriously.

During the reign of Song Huizong, he simply didn't do any repairs.

Moreover, the reclamation of the lake is serious, resulting in frequent flooding of the entire area.

Both the Jin and Yuan dynasties had a laissez-faire attitude, especially the Yuan Dynasty, which cut down a large number of trees upstream to build palaces, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was also cut down. This led to floods every year, and the water system in Hebei became chaotic, and finally only Baiyangdian Lake was left.

Zhu Ming's luck was very good, because it was abandoned not long ago, and the water system was not completely chaotic.

The imperial court did not allocate much money, and this thousand miles of fertile fields were restored to the level of the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhu Ming came to the edge of the paddy field and stretched out his hand to stroke the rice leaves: "Over there in the south of the Yangtze River, the rice should be harvested in a month, right?" But there is no tasseling here. What is the yield? ”

The rune says, "Just harvest before the frost rises." The yield is certainly not as good as that of Jiangnan, but it can be regarded as good land in the north. Only the fertile land around the Great Wall of Water can pay 20,000 stone in the annual field tax! ”

Zhu Ming became more and more happy when he heard this, and then said with contempt: "The Jin Kingdom has occupied this place for several years, and the hen that lays the golden egg will not be used. They only knew how to plunder and plunder, but instead forced the people to flee south. ”

Fu Xingzhong said: "When it is completely managed, the field tax may reach 30,000 stones." ”

The officials of these prefectures and counties must have the best political performance, and some have been promoted and transferred.

Since the Juma River was temporarily unsailable, Zhu Ming rode along the south bank.

When he came to Baiyangdian, Zhu Ming saw an endless lake. Not only is the area of water larger than later generations, but most of the lakes are contiguous.

Fu Xingzhong said: "Most of the polder embankments have been demolished, and the former Song Hao robber lake is the place where the land is farmed, and all the land will be returned to the lake in the next two years." ”

The lake is full of lotus leaves, and the turquoise color makes people like it.

Zhu Ming said happily: "Call the local prefect, general judge, county magistrate and other officials, and I will go boating with them on the lake." ”

(End of chapter)